#252 Nora D’Ecclesis: The Everyday Value of Zen
Release Date: 09/21/2022
#346 Ben Keesey: Born Again—From Fame to Death to Real Life
The Next Chapter with Charlie
Show Notes On today’s show we chat Ben Keesey, the Development and Partnerships Director for Richard Rohr’s Center of Action and Contemplation. Before joining the CAC, Ben was CEO of a charity called Invisible Children, a remarkable organization whose mission was to save the lives of children in Africa who were being abducted, turned into child soldiers or sex slaves. The numbers are shocking… we are talking about more than 30,000 children in Uganda, the Congo, and Sudan. A few statistics regarding Invisible Children: § Raised $50 MM. § Created a video...
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#345 Terry Hershey: What Will You Honor this Year?
The Next Chapter with Charlie
Show Notes Welcome to the new version of The Next Chapter with Charlie. Today will be the very first show on our new platform of audio and video. This first episode of 2025 will be published on YouTube as well as your favorite podcast location. I thought we might begin our first show of the year in conversation of with our dear friend Terry Hershey, author of 17 books, hugely popular public speaker, landscape architect, and spiritual guide. Let’s see what Terry might have for us on the second day of the New Year of 2025. LINKS Find out all about Terry Hershey and...
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#344 Fidele Sebahizi: Out of the Ashes (Literally)
The Next Chapter with Charlie
Show Notes Our guest today, Dr Fidele Sebahizi, is a refugee immigrant from the Congo in Africa. He was raised in a kind of poverty mostly unknown in the West, lived through an ethnic massacre in a Refugee Camp where his closet friend was murdered, and yet… came to the United States at 25 years old where he earned a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree, and PhD in Criminal Justice. All while working in the Abilene PD. With that, let’s get Dr Sebahizi on air to take a deep dive into his Life… Out of the Ashes. LINKS Book: ...
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#343 Charlie on The "Other" Christmas Story
The Next Chapter with Charlie
Stumbling and Bumbling Along Oh my… This podcast regarding the birth narrative of Jesus is raw. Filled with ah’s and uh’s and so’s. Longer periods of silence. Very “not professional.” And yet it is filled with truth about the humble ways of the Divine. God is not so much interested in pretty presentations as He is in powerful truths underlying the presentations. It is about the message and not the medium, because the actual medium is the Spirit of God. She grabs the message and places it into the hearts of the listeners. That means the message is not about me, it is about...
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#342 Andrew Matthews: Bouncing Back… From Disappointment
The Next Chapter with Charlie
Show Notes Our guest, Andrew Matthews, has sold more than 8 million books with titles like Follow Your Heart, How Life Works, and Happiness in Hard Times. Today we chat about his latest book titled Bounding Back: How you rebound from disappointment and disaster. With that, let’s get Andrew on air to chat about this essential topic. LINKS Please be sure to check out Andrew Matthews’ latest book: . You can find out more about Andrew at his website:
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#341 Caitlyn Cogan Doemner: Social Justice Begins with You
The Next Chapter with Charlie
Show Notes On today’s show my very special guest, Caitlyn Cogan Doemner, and I discuss some ideas that have floating around in my mind for a bit. Ideas about a core philosophy of love, kind of in line with the words of Jesus about loving your neighbor… ... only I want to be rather specific when my neighbor is the one struggling at the bottom level of Maslow’s hierarchy—those with access to water, food, shelter, warmth, and clothing. Those I refer to as the poor and disenfranchised. Here’s how I began my latest blog written the day after the election...
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#340 Terry Hershey: The Ordinary is the Hiding Place of the Holy
The Next Chapter with Charlie
Show Notes Well, we’re finally back with our dear friend Terry Hershey. The topic we will chat about today is the role of the ordinary—the everyday—in the lexicon of spirituality. For most of us, the idea of the Divine is often thought of a special, unique, and oft times spectacular occurrences. When the truth is God is most frequently found in ordinary occasions of work and play and familiar relationships. The word “epiphany” comes to mind which we understand “seeing God” in the miraculous or the special. But the dictionary definition simply means a...
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#339 Dennis J Henson: The One Habit for Success
The Next Chapter with Charlie
Show Notes Our guest today, Dennis J. Henson, is a successful real estate investor, teacher, and author with over fifty years of experience. His mentoring program has greatly contributed to the success of many of his followers. Dennis has a new book, Real Impact, Daily Inspiration, and I am very impressed with his structure and important ideas. Once, during an interview, Dennis was asked, “if you had to name the one thing that’s had the greatest impact on your students, what would it be?” He thought for just a second and responded with,...
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#338 Lata Hamilton: Your Career is a Launch Pad to Life
The Next Chapter with Charlie
Show Notes Today I am excited to chat with Lata Hamilton, a 3-time guest on the show, who is in the process of releasing her very first book, Pioneer Your Career Change. I am loving Lata’s view that while your new career change begins as a Business Decision for the employer and is most often a Personal Decision for you. However, Lata proposes that you understand your career change as a Business Decision as well. As you will discover today, the...
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#337 Wendy Hooper Ross: Understanding Fear Pt 2
The Next Chapter with Charlie
Show Notes Today we revisit Wendy Hooper Ross to conclude our show on the subject of Understanding Fear. Wendy is an expert in residential real estate (as you discovered in Part One last week), but it is also obvious that Wendy is an expert on life, from both the thinking and feeling perspectives. Last week we started out to talk about fear in life as we considered four areas: home ownership, relationships, careers, and voting in this next presidential election. We discussed, in depth, the self-fulfilling negative downward spiral that leads to our frustrating...
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Typically, at this point in the introduction, it’s not uncommon for me to say how much I am looking forward to the show. And it is always the truth. However, today is different. I am really looking forward to this show Our guest speaks the same spiritual language that I do: one of meditation, silence, and deep contemplation on the verities of life. Only our guest speaks another dialect.
Nora D’Ecclesis is a Zen Buddhist master, with special expertise in practicing the annual tradition of Zen Rohatsu, which is the title of her most recent book. Her book, Zen Rohatsu serves as a backstory of “Why… we meditate, live mindfully and have a spiritual practice.”
At this point in the introduction, I would normally offer up an overview of Nora’s accomplishments. But as is typical with those in humble spiritual practices, Nora is quite private. It’s almost impossible to even find what we might consider a bio or resume. Nora lets her work speak for itself.
I can say this: For more than three decades Nora has been devoted to her spiritual practice as well as leading retreats, guiding individuals, and writing books. Nora has authored at least 14 books, at least 2 of which have been Amazon bestsellers, including the book we will discuss today, Zen Rohatsu.
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Find out more about Nora D’Ecclesis at her website: https://noradecclesis.com
Please check out Nora’s latest book Zen Rohatsu.